Quote from: Sylar49 on January 07, 2018, 11:20:20 PM

Quote from: dottat on January 07, 2018, 06:32:49 PM

Quote from: Sylar49 on January 07, 2018, 01:38:36 PM

I'm wondering.. where can I obtain and inspect the source code used to create the CGMiner binary included in this distribution?

Isn't that a GPL3 compliance issue that people bashed another firmware hacker about a couple of years back?

If it helps you out with your fears I already took a look. I have no affiliation with blissz but felt the same as you. I can confirm the dev mining works exactly like he's stated it does. There's no back door etc included. It's just a customized version of the firmware/binaries.

I appreciate the assurance, but that side-steps the point. If it's based on or derived from GPLv3 code, it must be made available once distributed. It's OK to make a buck off of distributing the modified product, but you can't go closed-source and withhold your modifications to GPL3-based code or binaries you're distributing.

There was another firmware hacker case a few months back:
Re: Bounty for Cracking Bitmain S9 BMminer

At least Blissz here actually put in some work (albeit source code yet to be published), whereas -- from what I observed in the Github repositories -- fubly seems to have simply rebadged Bitmain's source code, and removed irrelevant hardware support to slim things down. The guy also had the audacity to remove Colin Kolivas (original author) from the credits and also send a $120K invoice to Bitmain.

Anyway, cgminer is GPL3, so I look forward to examining the source in the near future. Thanks!

Yep I hear ya. I'm well familiar with GPL as most of my online presence has been on the phone hacking/rooting/rom'ing side of the world. Investigated a great number of GPL complaints while i was a moderator at XDA as well. That's part of why I tore this package apart.

Pretty sure blissz used the source here to compile from.. http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/ Though that maintainer was for bitcoin only.